Militant Muslims are the culprits in many of world's current conflicts

Capital Times ^ | 7-25-06 | John Cummuta

[SJackson]

In particularly liked the progressive editors comment.

Editor's note: Mr. Cummuta has a right to his views, but we would note that the governments of Iran, Palestine and Lebanon were elected

Guess that make it ok if they want to kill us.

[El Conservador]

Is this the same John Cummuta selling debt-elimination programs???

[tet68]

Dear Editors, why leave Venzueala, or Cuba off your list
they have "elected" governments too.

[TheDon]

That the gov'ts were democratically elected only makes the collateral damage more justified.

[C210N]

Militant Muslims are the culprits in many of world's current conflicts

Militant Muslims are behind just one conflict:

from the perspective of WW0 that's been going on since the 700's.

[kingu]

Reader's note on the Editor's note: We'd like to note that the government of Iran was not elected, they were appointed by a religious council to their positions and while some secular positions are chosen by public vote, it is the religious council that determines who is fit or unfit to run. Beyond, they can also remove anyone voted in by the popular vote.

The government of Lebanon has admitted that they have little control of their country, so actually don't count as a government. We'll call that an advisory council. And Palestine isn't a nation, and thus can't have a traditional elected government.

[TheCrusader]

"Militant Muslims are the culprits in many most of the world's current conflicts"

[Red6]

Editors note- Was that the comic relief at the end?

Iran's president is put in place by a bunch of Mullah's. The elections are about as meaningful as those under the Saddam regime where he got 99% of the vote.

Lebanon is a nation where candidates that push for a Syrian withdraw of troops get assassinated and where Hezbollah is backed by Iran with more than $100 million per annum. Is that democracy when a government has strings attached to it and in Syria and Iran the puppet masters have their hands on them?

I understand that the paper wants to sound neutral and "intellectual", the latter requires being anti-US and anti-Israel in the mind of the self proclaimed intellectual. But claiming these to be democratically elected governments is like saying the DDR was a democracy or that Pol Pot was a humanitarian. The editor just made a public statement proclaiming "ignorance".

[VOA]

I've learned that when fighting or terrorism is reported, and you
can't figure out the motives of the killers...decent chance it's Islamics
just doing what Islamics do.
And the press is just "playing dumb" even if they know it's Islamics at work.

I first had this epiphany with the coverage of the "rebel forces" in
The Ivory Coast in The Los Angeles Times. Couldn't tell what the h-ll
the "rebels" were wanting to accomplish from reading and re-reading the LA Times.
Finally figured it out from Free Republic postings.

[mosquewatch.com]

http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/muslim/041.smt.html#041.6985

Book 041, Number 6985: Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews.

Militants, my eye, they are good Muslims.

Jeff Davis

[VOA]

No mention of East Timor.
Probably because one of the Timorese leaders that got the Nobel Prize
was really gung-ho for the USA going after Islamic terror.

I think it was the fellow named Horta, as mentioned in the linked article:
http://www.monitor.net/monitor/9610a/etimornews.html

[Ax]

With the exception of Sendero Luminoso and those guerrillas in the southern part of Mexico and MS13, I can't think of any "agro" that the moslems aren't involved in. They started off in the 8th Century trying to convert people by the sword and fortunately Europe was able to turn them back at several points, Tours, Spain, Lepanto and Vienna to name a few. Now Europe is too willing to lay their collective necks on the chopping block and it's going to be up to the United States to take up the mantle of Charles Martel.

[TheCrusader]

"Now Europe is too willing to lay their collective necks on the chopping block and it's going to be up to the United States to take up the mantle of Charles Martel."

True. But when the Europeans finally have had it with the islamo-nazis history shows that they can be vicious and will fight well.

[eeevil conservative]

ROFL!

no way! don't believe it....couldn't be......

Sherlock needs a medal.....

[doc1019]

Would like to see the list of world conflicts that are not Muslim instigated! I’m sure the list would be much shorter.

[Ax]

I sure hope so. I would've hoped that Ireland would've been Europe's fallback position as it was in the Dark Ages, the repository of civilization. But the last time I was in Ireland, 2002, a lot of enemy were there, establishing their fifth column.

[msnimje]

...governments of Iran, Palestine and Lebanon were elected

Oh yeah, THOSE were fair elections.

[RouxStir]

"Would like to see the list of world conflicts that are not Muslim instigated!"

1). Two of my cats hate each other and get into a blood-letting fight every6 to 8 weeks.

[SJackson]

As Red6 noted, Iran's elections aren't direct. Palestine, Lebanon, probably honest.

A mistake GWB made was defining "democracy", should have been promoting freedom or liberty, on the basis of elections. A single election means little. Freedom, tolerance of opposing beliefs mean a lot. I'd suggest that Adams transferance of power to Jefferson, his opponent, as the result of a free election was a better indicator of the direction of America than Washington's election.